Quick Question: GA-965-DS4 or Asus P5K Pro for Q6600?

[sprognak]

As subject. I currently have an E6600 on a GA-965-DS4 motherboard that's a year old. I've bought a new Q6600 and an Asus P5K Pro board.

I want to overclock the Q6600 to around 3.5+ if I can get it I'm not too fussed about clocking the E6600.

The cooling/power regulation looks a bit better on the older gigabyte but which is going to be the best platform for the Q6600 chip?

 

[p4radox]

The P5K for sure. It uses the newer P35 chipset, which is better in many respects than the older 956 chipset on the Gigabyte board.

 

[pastymuncher]

I had a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P and got then upgraded to a Q6600 G0. I was hoping it would let me clock it to the same sort of speed that you want but it topped out at 3.2Ghz, which isn't to be sniffed at, but i was a little dissapointed. I then got my P5E and hit 3.8Ghz. I think it would be worth seeing what you can get with your current board first. Then if you can't get as high as you want get the P5K.